Jaap polak biography of abraham
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This story will be told in English on Saturday May 4 at and PM.
When Margrit was 18, she and her father discovered letters written between him and her mother, chronicling their courtship in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen. She translated and annotated the letters which have subsequently been published as a book, filmed as a documentary and presented as an opera, all entitled Steal a Pencil for Me.
Ina Polak was the daughter of Abraham Soep, owner of the second largest diamond factory in Amsterdam. A member of the board of the Jewish Council, Soep was able to keep his daughter relatively safe in Westerbork, where she worked in the laundry rather than dismantling batteries, which was her original job. There she met Jaap Polak, who was unhappily married at the time. They had met years before at a birthday party, and Jaap remembered falling in love with her at first sight. When they met in Westerbork, Ina also fell in love. Ina and Jack exchanged notes in Westerbork, but in Bergen-Bels
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Gerald Cohen, composer
“Last week inom witnessed the second performance of Gerald Cohen’s new Opera, Steal a Pencil For Me at JTS. It was a great experience! I funnen the music hypnotic. At this scen, it was scored for piano, violin, cello and clarinet, so skillfully, that at times it sounded like an orchestra. The singers were world class, with the astonishing Ilana Davidson playing the kvinna lead. The excellent libretto by Deborah Brevoort, was brought forth by brilliant lyric diction by the singers, and the dirigent, Ari Pelto, was wonderful. The audience was filled with many of New York’s musical intelligentsia, as Gerald has already built up a reputation. My friends, this fryst vatten the work of a Master. inom truly believe this musically passionate man carries the line of such great Jewish Composers such as Copland and Bernstein.”
Cantor Jack Mendelson
“Thank you for the beautiful gift to the Polaks and to those of us in the audience gods night. What a memora
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Bram Asscher
Bram Asscher was a classmate of Margot Frank at the Jewish Lyceum, Amsterdam. He wrote a letter from camp Westerbork to his mother in which he mentions seeing Margot and her family.
Person
- Abraham Asscher
- Born on: Aug. 28,
- Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
Bram Asscher en Trees Lek, kort na de oorlog
Vervaardiger onbekend. Privécollectie
Status onduidelijk
In , Abraham (Bram) Asscher was a classmate of Margot Frank in class 4b2 at the Jewish Lyceum, Amsterdam. Together with his brother Jeannot, he was in camp Westerbork from 29 September to 13 September .[1] Although he was not in the punishment barracks, during this period he saw Margot and her family in the camp and wrote about it to his mother.
Bram Asscher was a nephew (the son of a brother) of Abraham Asscher of the Jewish Council. His mother, Stephanie Fischer, remarried a non-Jew after the death of her first husband (Bram's father). As a result, she had a Sperre — an exemption